So, he could have paid other guys to fight the war and stayed home? Instead of being in the middle of the battles, and going cold and hungry in Valley Forge?
There’s a lot of bad things you can say about Washington but enough good to at least make him complicated. He chose to limit his own Presidency, the opposite of our wannabe Führer. for one.
Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.
When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.
Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.
That possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.
They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.
he was only ever representing putin, and MSB never the billionaires in the us.
didn’t washington own like the western 2/3 of Pennsylvania?
And Ohio. He was by far the wealthiest man in the Colonies during his lifetime.
So, he could have paid other guys to fight the war and stayed home? Instead of being in the middle of the battles, and going cold and hungry in Valley Forge?
There’s a lot of bad things you can say about Washington but enough good to at least make him complicated. He chose to limit his own Presidency, the opposite of our wannabe Führer. for one.
Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.
In the most literal sense we have representation, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it in practice… :(
Literal only in the terminological sense. We elect “representatives” but they don’t actually represent us in any meaningful way.
Don’t they? Look around you.
When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.